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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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CHAPTER
VI
THE
GREAT
DANE
The
origin
of
the
Great
Dane,
like
that
of
many
other
varieties
of
dogs,
is
so
obscure
that
all
researches
have
only
resulted
in
speculative
theories,
but
the
undoubted
antiquity
of
this
dog
is
proved
by
the
fact
that
representatives
of
a
breed
sufficiently
similar
to
be
considered
his
ancestors
are
found
on
some
of
the
oldest
Egyptian
monuments.
A
few
years
ago
a
controversy
arose
on
the
breed's
proper
designation,
when
the
Germans
claimed
for
it
the
title
"Deutsche
Dogge."
Germany
had
several
varieties
of
big
dogs,
such
as
the
Hatzrude,
Saufanger,
Ulmer
Dogge,
and
Rottweiler
Metzgerhund;
but
contemporaneously
with
these
there
existed,
as
in
other
countries
in
Europe,
another
very
big
breed,
but
much
nobler
and
more
thoroughbred,
known
as
the
Great
Dane.
When
after
the
war
of
1870
national
feeling
was
pulsating
very
strongly
in
the
veins
of
reunited
Germany,
the
German
cynologists
were
on
the
lookout
for
a
national
dog,
and
for
that
purpose
the
Great
Dane
was
re-christened
"Deutsche
Dogge,"
and
elected
as
the
champion
of
German
Dogdom.
For
a
long
time
all
these
breeds
had,
no
doubt,
been
indiscriminately
crossed.
The
Great
Dane
was
introduced
into
this
country
spasmodically
some
thirty-five
years
ago,
when
he
was
commonly
referred
to
as
the
Boarhound,
or
the
German
Mastiff,
and
for
a
time
the
breed
had
to
undergo
a
probationary
period
in
the
"Foreign
Class"
at
dog
shows,
but
it
soon
gained
in
public
favour,
and
in
the
early
'eighties
a
Great
Dane
Club
was
formed,
and
the
breed
has
since
become
one
of
the
most
popular
of
the
larger
dogs.
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